Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-01-27

and shall draw interest at the rate of one
per cent per month from the date of such
delinquency until the first day OF July.
's7, at which latter date there shall be
added as penalty, five per cent upon
the amount 80 remaining unpaid, and one
per cent per month thereafter until paid
to be added on the first day of each
month.
The opinion of the attorney general
was as follows: While 1t seems to be the
aim for the bill 10 provide temporary re-
lief for the tax payer, 1t does not prevent
immediate distraint and sale for personal
property for unpaid taxes after the first
day of January next succeeding the levy
Ing of the taxes, and by said section SO
the treasurer is directed and required TO
collect the same by distress sale and
sell after the first day of January,
while no penalty attaches until after Feb
ruary 1st. The message, bill and opinion
were referred to the Judiciary committee,
on motion OF Mr.. Dodds.
A NEW COMBINATION.
Peace and harmony prevailed IN both
branches of the Legislature today, moth
ing outside the usual routine occurring.
But as the shades Of night appeared, a
little rutle was noticed among the men,
bers of the house. 1t was not long be-
fore it was generally understood that a
rew combination was being organized,
and as the evening advanced the little
groups became more and more earnest
in their conversation, and it IS sized up az
follows: The northern members had
about arrived at the point where they
could see the writing on the wall. plain
enough to know they would be left when
the appropriations We're made, and that
some thing must be done, in order to pro.
tect the interests they represented, hence
their action tonight. 1t IS very difficult
to get hold of sufficient information to
state
JUST WHAT THE PLAN IS
but a new combination has been formed,
and the boys think they have it strong
enough to carry them through. Messrs.
Shook and Dodds are both iu the new
combination, and both working hard to
carry the plan to success, but the COM
binatlon was broken before, and this one
may not hold. Should the com mbinatlo
fail, the asylum at jamestown will hardly
~t 10, ell ,h.ro of tho oppropriotioOs
Work, and hard work ls necessary to sue
cess, and the trustees of the institute on
must not sleep it they expect to be cared
for. w. E. Dodge will be able to get
any reasonable measure through the
council, and is assisting Messrs. Shook
and Do Ids, of the house, but the feeling
in that body against the north generally,
is hard to overcome. jamestown people
should remember "eternal vigilepce is the
price of an appropriations"
OF the six new bills introduced in the
house, none were of interest to the people
generally. Mr.. Dodds has been placed
on the appropriation committee, in place
of Mr.. Williams, who reslgued, but
neither Ely nor Shook have received their
promised appointment on the railroad
committee.
The new governor favored the house
with his presence and during an informal
recess, for that purpose, the members
were presented to his excellency.
In the council nine new bills were
introduced. That introduced by Mr..
Hughes, viz: counc ! bill No. SO, bill for
an act TO provide for the appointment OF
trustees for the several public institutions
of the territory of Dakota, and to define
their terms of office, duties and compen-
sation, being the most important. This
bill restricts the number Of meetings and
limits the amount of compensation OF the
trustees of the various territorial instltu-
tlons.
AT O'Clock the council took up the
consideration Of the governors message,
and the several subjects were referred to
appropriate committees. Councilman
Sheldon, of Day county, occupied the
presidents chair, aud for considerable
time the business was conducted as if the
council was iu committee of the whole,
but on looking up the rules, it was dis
covered that 1t was acting in its regular
capacity. Some of the honorable gentle
men kept insisting that the council was
| IN the CO mmlttee of the whole, and just
as the last matter was referred to its CON-
mittee, DR.. Galloway Of Csss county, said
he did not think the council had gone ln-
to the committee Of the whole In the
proper manner. ard would insist that i,
should dissolve as a committee OF the
whole IN the correct way. This created
considerable mlrth, IS every person but
tho doctor had for some time known the
council was not sitting as . committee.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
| Colonel J. J. Flint, Ward Bill and